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Artist's Choice: Burton on Brancusi

7 April to 4 July 1989

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MoMA Staff

Organizer
Scott Burton  American, 1939–1989
Organizer
Kirk Varnedoe  American, 1946–2003

Artists

Constantin Brancusi
French, born Romania. 1876–1957
64 exhibitions
Scott Burton
American, 1939–1989
4 exhibitions

New York Times Review of the exhibition

PUBLISHED

16 April 1989

Rearranging the Brancusis

By Michael BRENSON

LEAD: The speaker is Kirk Varnedoe of the Museum of Modern Art, the subject is the artist Scott Burton. ''I heard him saying that every sculptor has at the base of his work a central gesture. He said he always thought about Brancusi's bases as tables that he reached out and squeezed. I thought: if only I could get across this bear hug, this lived relationship with art.

New York Times • Arts • page 33 • 1,619 words